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Top Stories Wikipedia Current Events "Once a year we go to Austria to hunt with our dogs, and at the end Two major political parties • A curfew is imposed in Beirut of the day we sit on the verandah protest placards used in after deadly clashes erupted and drink a beer. So we thought, Armenan-Turkish journalist's between pro government my dog also has earned it," said funeral supporters and Hezbollah-led Berenden. Thousands of people marched in factions. Dink's Funeral to protest his •Ecuador's Defense Minister According to Berenden, owners can assassination, holding Guadalupe Larriva is killed along enjoy the new beer as well, but she placards that read with three pilots and her daughter also stated that it will cost owners "We are all Armenian" in a crash involving two about four times as much to drink and "We are Hrant helicopters. Larriva was the first the beer than to buy a 'human Dink" in both Turkish, woman to serve as the country's beer.' A bottle of the dog beer sells Kurdish and defense minister. at about $2.14. Armenian. Later, these placards were protested by MHP and CHP. •276 people onboard the Cunard The slogan for the new dog beer is The leader of MHP, a fascist Line's RMS Queen Elizabeth 2 are "a beer for your best friend" and political party of Turkey, described sickened by the norovirus during Brenden hopes that the product will the placards saying "We are all its 2007 circumnavigation of the grab international attention. Armenian" as "a freak show world. Requests for the beer are already organized by those who do not •Oleg Khinsagov is sentenced for coming from the United States, participate in martyr funerals" 8.5 years for smuggling of Highly England and Japan. enriched uranium from Russia to Sex offender pretends to be Georgia. "We are overwhelmed with it. From 12 years-old; enrolls into America, England and Japan we •29 people are killed after a bus seventh grade have (received) mail and we are plunges down a ravine in southern A man in Arizona just going to think about it, how we Mexico. is accused of can bring it on the market there," pretending to be said Brenden. 12 years-old and Amsterdam pet shop owner then enrolling himself into 7th creates beer for dogs Living fossil caught off coast of grade classes around the state, in A woman in The Netherlands who Japan at least two middle schools. uses her dogs to hunt in Austria, The frilled shark was spotted off the has decided to give her dogs a new coast of Japan on January 21, 2007 Featured story kind of treat, beer. and taken to the Awashima Marine Park in Shizuoka, Japan where it Living fossil caught off coast Terrie Berenden, a woman who was filmed and later died. of Japan owns a petshop in Amsterdam The frilled shark created a nonalcoholic-beer for her "We believe moving pictures of a was spotted off the dogs which is made from malt and live specimen are extremely rare," coast of Japan on a beef extract. The beer is called said an official with the Awashima January 21, 2007 "Kwispelbier" (Kwispelen means the Marine Park. and taken to the 'wagging of a [dogs] tail' in Dutch), Awashima Marine and was put onto shelves just last The frilled shark, Chlamydoselachus Park in Shizuoka, Japan where it week. anguineus, is a member of a 350 was filmed and later died. million year old family, and
If you would like to write, publish or edit articles, visit en .wikinews.org Friday, January 26, 2007 Wikinews Page 2 characterised by an eel-like Rodreick attended a total of 50 appearance with a distinctive Previously, Cam Jackson was the days at Imagine before he was protrusion of the gills. MPP for Burlington. But, he dismissed from the school for not resigned to run for mayor of attending class enough. Rodreick is The 1.6m female specimen was Burlington in the Ontario 2006 currently being held inside the spotted in shallow waters by a local municipal elections. Jackson won Yavapai County jail. fisherman who contacted the on November 13, 2006. After, the Awashima Marine Park who were riding was vacant for months and "Our first priority is to help our able to catch the shark. that's when the by-election was students and our families establish finally called. a sense of security on our campus," The video is available on YouTube said a spokeswoman for the and shows the dying shark De Jong is up against Progressive Imagine school, Rhonda Cagle. swimming around the aquarium Conservative Joyce Savoline, with its mouth open. Ontario Liberal Party and former Cagle also describes Rodreick as Burlington city counciler Joan being "quiet." It is unknown as to why the shark Lougheed, and New Democrat Cory was in such shallow waters, but Judson. "He was quiet. He turned in his officials say it might have been homework. By most accounts he sick. Its usual habitat is between A couple of Burlington residents was aloof and kept to himself," 120 meters and 1280 meters in were also interested in running in added Cagle. depth where it feeds on squid and the by-election, according to chief bony fish. The shark and grow up financial officer for the new riding Rodreick attempted to use fake to 2 meters in length. It is regularly association, Lawson Hunter. admissions documents and a fake caught by bottom trawlers and birth certificate to enroll into the used as fish bait. De Jong has been leader of the charter school. Authorities are Green Party of Ontario since 1993. charging Rodreick with "They live between 1,968 and misdemeanor assault, failure to 3,280 feet (600 and 1,000 meters) Sex offender pretends to be 12 register as a sex offender in under the water, which is deeper years old; enrolls into seventh Arizona, posessing forgery devices, than humans can go," added the grade conspiracy to commit forgery, and park official. A man in Arizona is accused of conspriacy to commit fraud. pretending to be 12 years old, by "We think it may have come close using make-up to disguise his age, Rodreick also tried to enroll into the to the surface because it was sick, and then enrolling himself into 7th school using a false name, "Casey or else it was weakened because it grade classes around the state, in Price." was in shallow waters," continued at least two middle schools. The the official. man is also being accused of Police are also saying that Rodreick assaulting a girl, but the name of fooled two other men into This species is a living fossil, having the girl is not known. Police will not believeing he was 12 years old. a close resemblance to fossil release details about the assault. records of paleozoic sharks. In Lonnie Stiffler, 61 and Robert comparison modern sharks have 5 Neil Havens Rodreick II, 29, is a James Snow, 43, were Rodreick's sets of gills whereas the frilled convicted sex-offender who is from housemates in Arizona and met shark has 6 sets. Oklahoma and police arrested Rodreick on the internet in Rodreick when he attempted to Oklahoma. Both Stiffler and Snow Ontario Green Party leader to enroll into Mingus Springs Charter were under the impression that run in byelection School located in Chino Valley, Rodreick was a "preteen," Frank de Jong, 51, leader of the Arizona using what school officials according to police, and that all Green Party of Ontario is running in thought to be fake documents. three men were in a continuing the Ontario by-election for Rodreick spent nearly the whole relationship that included sex. Burlington, Ontario. He registered day at the school. Rodreick also Wednesday night, the deadline for attended another charter school Another man, Brian J. Nellis, 34, people wanting to run as a from August 14 to November of was also arrested by police at candidate, at the returning office. 2006, Imagine School at Rosefield. Rodreick's home. Police say Nellis
If you would like to write, publish or edit articles, visit www.wikinews.org Friday, January 26, 2007 Wikinews Page 3 followed the three other men from referred to these two criminals as simply microwaving the wet Oklahoma to Arizona. All men were "brothers". sponge, on the highest power, for arrested on January 18, 2007. two minutes. There is not much information All four men are being charged with about the structure of the Turkish Philippine partylist urges fraud and forgery, but Nellis, Snow Revenge Brigade. It is speculated bishop's meet to tackle and Rodreick will be charged with that this terrorist organization has extrajudicial killings failure for registering as sex ties to the Turkish mafia as well as s the Catholic Bishops’ Conference offenders. the Turkish Deep State (derin of the Philippines (CBCP) enters its devlet), an influential, violent, and second day of its meeting, Bayan Police also discovered a video at informal anti-democratic coalition Muna party-list appealed to the the home, that shows Rodreick within the Turkish political system. bishops to include the issue of having sex with what appears to be rampant and intensifying killings in an underage child. Police do not Study says to clean your the country in their agenda. know who the child is, or how old sponge, microwave it he is, but that he is a "juvenile." Studies done on germs and In an open letter addressed to the bacteria performed by researchers CBCP Permanent Council, Bayan Rodreick was convicted in 1996 for at the University of Florida show Muna President Satur Ocampo and lewdly propositioning to a 6-year- that a dirty kitchen sponge can be Chairperson Dr. Reynaldo Lesaca old boy. cleaned and "sterilized" by called on the bishops to include in microwaving it for 2 minutes, but their agenda “the demand for Militant group 'protests' researchers warn to wet the sponge justice of the families of the victims placards used in Armenian- first. of extrajudicial killings, and the Turkish journalist's funeral worldwide uproar over the ongoing Thousands of people marched in "People often put their sponges and slaughter of innocent, unarmed and Dink's Funeral to protest his scrubbers in the dishwasher, but if non-combatant activists and other assassination, holding placards that they really want to decontaminate individuals in the country especially read "We are all Armenian" and them and not just clean them, they in light of the coming May "We are Hrant Dink" in both should use the microwave," said elections.” Turkish, Kurdish and Armenian. the professor who was in charge of the study that discovered the Ocampo cited the case of Prof. Jose Later, as reported by Wikinews, results, Gabriel Bitton. Maria Cui who was gunned down in these placards were protested by front of his students at the MHP, a fascist Turkish political "Basically what we find is that we University of Eastern Philippines party, and by CHP, a political party could knock out most bacteria in (UEP) in Catarman, Northern that the mainstream considers two minutes. The microwave is a Samar last Friday. leftist. very powerful and an inexpensive tool for sterilization," added Bitton. Yesterday, two more members of Now a Turkish militant group, the party fell in a hail of bullets in Turkish Revenge Brigade (Türk The sponges that researchers Sorsogon. Tricycle driver Ruben İntikam Tugayı), 'protested' these studied, were placed in "raw Ermino was shot dead by placards by placing a package, wastewater" and then put into a motorcycle-riding men after which was made to look like a microwave to be "zapped," ferrying passengers. Demetrio bomb, to the wall of the Grand according to Bitton. The Imperial was having dinner with his National Assembly of Turkey wastewater was a "witch's brew of family when gunmen barged into (TBMM). The package was rendered fecal bacteria, viruses, protozoan his home and shot him in front of ineffective by the Turkish security parasites and bacterial spores, his family. forces, who found a note inside the including Bacillus cereus spores," package. The note 'criticized' the said Bitton. The killings bring the number of placards used in Hrant Dink's slain Bayan Members to 125. Based funeral. It also asked Dink's Researchers say that at least 99% on records by the human rights assassin Ogün Samast and Yasin of the bacteria, viruses, spores and group KARAPATAN, a total of 822 Hayal, who admitted to incite the parasites in kitchen spongees can civilians have been killed under the assassin, to be freed. The note be destroyed or "inactivated" by Macapagal-Arroyo government.
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zone, the legal limit was 50 km/h. cannot call 301 an assassin. ..." “We implore you to use all your Sergeant Smith was discharged Article 301 is a controversial powers to demand the dismantling without conviction in court censorship article of the Turkish of death squads and to ask yesterday. penal code that makes it a crime to President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo "insult Turkishness". to order the Armed Forces of the Inspector Kerry Griffiths, has said Philippines, the Philippine National that the police had made the Today in History Police and her National Security correct decision to charge Sergeant 1565 - The Deccan sultanates Adviser to cease and desist from Smith with dangerous driving. defeated the Vijayanagara Empire wrongly labeling persons such as in the Battle of Talikota, ended the Prof. Cui and organizations such as Inspector Griffiths said according to last Hindu kingdom in India. Bayan Muna as “communist fronts,” clear police policy, a police officer is 1700 - The magnitude 9 Cascadia making them target of the not to put the public or other police Earthquake took place off the government's all-out war against officers into risk while responding Pacific coast of the American the armed revolutionary to an emergency, under no Northwest, as evidenced by movement,” Ocampo and Lesaca exception. Japanese records of tsunamis. said. 1788 - The British First Fleet, led Inspector Griffiths, ex-southern by Captain Arthur Phillip, landed at Bayan Muna also expressed alarm road policing manager, has claimed Sydney Cove just outside present- over government efforts to lay that there was already other police day Sydney, establishing the first down the conditions for massive officer on their way to the crash permanent European settlement in cheating and violence in the coming and Segreant Smith's speed was Australia. May elections. “The killings, as well not warranted. He said that police 1950 - President Rajendra Prasad as the fascistic measures to purge have a duty to drive responsibly, succeeded Rajaji the last Governor local governments of critical even though they do have the General as the head of state of officials and moves to pad the power to exceed the speed limit. India and the Commander-in-Chief voting list point to a deliberate of the Indian armed forces. effort to cheat and to use violence Two major political parties 1983 - The hugely popular in the polls,” they said. protest placards used in spreadsheet program Lotus 1-2-3 Armenian-Turkish journalist's was first released. The letter was sent yesterday to funeral January 26 is Australia Day in the Permanent Council’s meeting Thousands of people marched in Australia (1788), Republic Day in which began on Tuesday and ends Dink's Funeral to protest his India (1950). on Saturday. assassination, holding placards that read "We are all Armenian" and Quote of the Day New Zealand police defend "We are Hrant Dink" in both I do not believe they are right who decision to charge speeding Turkish, Kurdish and Armenian. say that the defects of famous men policeman Later, these placards were should be ignored. I think it is The New Zealand police have protested by MHP and CHP. The better that we should know them. defended their choice to charge a leader of MHP, a fascist political Then, though we are conscious of policeman with dangerous driving party of Turkey, described the having faults as glaring as theirs, after being caught on a hidden placards saying "We are all we can believe that that is no speed camera at around 65 Armenian" as “a freak show hindrance to our achieving also kilometres over the legal speed organized by those who do not something of their virtues. limit. participate in martyr funerals” ~ W. Somerset Maugham
Sergeant Gregory Arthur Smith was A party council member of CHP, a Word of the Day charged with dangerous driving relatively leftist political party, said brandish; v after he responded to a priority one "we became ashamed of being 1. To move or swing a weapon emergency, which requires Turkish. I am Turkish and I protest back and forth. immediate police attention. the assassination. ... The placards 2. To bear something in a Sergeant Smith was caught on a that say "assassin 301" are also showy display. hidden speed camera at 115 wrong. As long as we do not want kilometres per hour in a school to denigrate Turkishness, we
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